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> Denying the world access to clean, affordable fuels like gas, oil, and coal is a real problem.

This is literally the second sentence of that article.

There's folks that suggest nuclear energy is promoted not as an alternative to fossil fuels (because it won't actually be built, at least not in sufficient quantity any time soon) but as a way to discourage wind and PV and thus tacitly support the status quo.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/triple-nuclear-power-cop28

Of course, this is just one opinion battling another.

I guess they know that nuclear is a failed proposition in the US (and everywhere except China) so they can redirect focus from renewables into chasing this bridge to nowhere.